Study Finds Race Disparities
In Trials of New AIDs Drugs

By

Robert Tomsho Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated May 2, 2002 12:57 a.m. ET

Blacks and Hispanics with the AIDS virus are far less likely than their white counterparts to participate in clinical trials or to receive experimental medicines for the illness, a new research report says.

The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, adds to a growing body of evidence that racial disparities in health care persist despite governmental efforts to draw more minority patients into trials and erase inequities in care. The findings also come on the heels of a March report by the National...